Quotes About Transformation

Times don't change. Men do.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

I was not always a man of woe.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.